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The operators of geographic top-level domains such as .nyc, .london, .berlin and .tokyo have founded an international non-for-profit association in Brussels. In a press release issued on Monday, the new association, GeoTLD Group announces plans to promote geographic top-level domains, "ensuring they become essential components of the digital infrastructure, benefiting stakeholders of a location, language or culture." Initial members of the GeoTLD Group include Amsterdam, Cape Town, Paris, Sydney and Vienna.

— "For over 30 years cities and regions have had to peg their digital identities to their respective countries top-level domains or international ones. Brussels, for instance, communicated online as www.visitbrussels.be.. With its own top-level domain, the City of Brussels is now of course using www.visit.brussels for its branding, locally and internationally."

— "The new digital identities have been well accepted by Internet users and are increasingly used by everyone locally – from governments and local companies, to individuals. With an international association we are now able to connect and promote the interests of our members and engage the different stakeholders locally, nationally and internationally." –GeoTLD Group's Chairman Sébastien Ducos

— The GeoTLD Group says it also plans to make more cities, regions and communities aware of the advantages of their own local Internet identity.

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ICANN has announced that it has indefinitely deferred the delegations of the new TLDs .CORP, .HOME, and .MAIL due to the high-risk nature of the strings. The domains name system overseer has determined the said TLDs can cause name collisions, the overlap of private and public namespaces which may result in unintended and harmful results. more

The Council of European National Top-Level Domains Registries (CENTR) in its quarterly report released today, says global domains under all TLDs have contracted slightly due to declines in several larger new gTLDs. more

Government representatives from several countries in the Amazonas region clashed with a team of lawyers and communication officers of the global retailer Amazon over the top-level domain .amazon during the Annual Meeting of the Internet Corporation For Assigned Names Numbers (ICANN) in Abu Dhabi today. more

Organizations behind two of the new geographic top-level domains, .amsterdam and .frl, have refused to provide public access to information about the registrants of domain names, otherwise known as Whois records. more

Forty percent of non-brand new gTLDs are shrinking, reports Kevin Murphy in Domain Incite: "According to numbers culled from registry reports, 172 of the 436 commercial gTLDs we looked at had fewer domains under management at the start of June than they did a year earlier. more

According to a letter sent from ICANN's chair to the Registries Stakeholder Group (RySG) this week, the agency will not be setting a date for the next round of new gTLD applications anytime soon despite keen interest from registry operators. more

During the ICANN meeting in South Africa last week, the impact of new gTLD rights protection mechanisms (RPMS) was the subject of key discussions, and some concerns were voiced regarding trademark owners themselves registering domain names excessively and technically abusing the sunrise period. more

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